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Page 1: George Orwell - IHMC Public Cmapscmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1204996934562_1578702313_11750/George... · GEORGE ORWELL journalist imaginative power ... George - Eileen journalists

GEORGE ORWELL

journalist essayist

novelist lack of

imaginative power “teaching purpose”

reformer squalor emptiness

working-class life

trust

in socialism

better world Spanish Civil War

World War II

of distrust

disappointment

political formulas

propaganda

slogans

beast fable

Animal Farm

political allegory

anti-utopian novel political satire

wasted idealism epitaph

Gulliver's Travels book 4 – talking animals

(J. Swift) savage satire

pity for human beings' sufferings

Animal Farm

parallels with

Russian Revolution

revolutionary movements destiny

universal political truths

theme betrayal of democracy

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CHARACTERS

Old Major (pig) charismatic prophet

dream of

better society

Napoleon (pig) longing

for power

revolution betrayal

despotic ruler

Mollie (white horse)

finery love cause abandon for

sugar lumps

ribbons Benjamin (donkey)

sceptic nothing good

revolution

from

anything else

Boxer (horse)

simple honest

loyal

uncomplaining

others' comfort work destiny

down-trodden working-class

strength

no personal gain

exploitation pigs = intellectuals

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GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950)

father

Customs official (Bengal, India)

fashionable school (England)

Eton (scholarship)

(1917-21)

negative impression

snobbish atmosphere

class consciousness

Such, Such Were the Joys

autobiographical work

Indian Police Burma 1922-27

hatred of

authority

class privilege

English imperialism

Burmese Days novel 1934

Paris (18 months)

dish-washer

school-master

poverty

London

outcast

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

A Clergyman's Daughter ( novel, 1935)

failure

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

autobiographical

marriage (1936)

Eileen O' Shanghnessy active involvment

in socialist party

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)

life conditions

English poor areas

1936 George - Eileen

journalists

Barcelona fights with Republicans Spanish Civil War

serious wound

back home Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Spanish experiences

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Morocco (winter 1938) lung problems Marrakesh

essay

Coming Up for Air novel

autobiographical episodes Inside the Whale (1940, essays)

World War II

BBC wife's death (operation)

The Observer's correspondent

Ger many

Austria

France

Animal Farm (1945)

Critical Essays (1946)

Shooting an Elephant (1950)

articles for

The New Statesman

The Tribune

Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1949)

social allegory

vision

pessimistic

of

consequences

gloomy

of

totalitarian government

loss

of

future world

humanity personality

Orwell's death (1950)